Man jailed for leaving woman chained on island

A man in the western Siberia's Omsk city has been sentenced to a year in prison for chaining a woman on an island over a debt dispute

Alexei Kolchanov, who accused the woman of stealing 200,000 rubles (around $6,400) from him, took her out to a river island and abandoned her there.

"On July 19, 2011, the accused...beat his acquaintance up demanding his money back, forced her onto a boat and took her to an island, where he put a chain around her neck with a perforated canister so she could not swim across to the bank, and left her there," Omsk's investigative unit said in a statement Thursday.

The woman then found a large piece of styrofoam or thermocol and was able to reach the middle of the Irtysh river where she was picked up by fishermen.